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Matchmaking

The profile for an on-line dating site of A Shakespearian character


Dismiss my vice, ‘tis virtue that in verse

I tender, offer, proffer – what you will –

In this my profile writ to stir the hearts

Of all who, in their discontent, do seek

A worthy suitor, honest to the core;

For honesty it is that wins me fame

As said the judge who, guided by my word,

Did willingly release me from my chains

And bid me seek a mate to match my worth

Which now I do. Promoted through the ranks

I won the trust of one in higher rank

Whose mistress, I confess, I did desire,

But, having lost her through no fault of mine,

It is to you, whoe’er, I now do look.

‘I am not what I seem’, so once I said,

Yet seemly shall I prove to be abed.


(Iago)

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